[ad_1] A total of 33,870 people in the country tested positive for HIV at the end of the third quarter of 2022 that is from January to September out of which 24,017 were female and 9,853 were male. A total of 9,160 adult males and 693 male children; 23,294 adult females and 723 female children…
[ad_1] Not less than 30 Boko Haram terrorists – including three commanders – have been reportedly killed in fresh airstrikes by the Nigerian Air Force (NAF). According to Zagazola Makama, a publication focused on the Lake Chad region, the operation was conducted on Sunday, January 1, around the Sambisa forest. Four Boko Haram camps —…
[ad_1] (Xinhua) 16:33, January 03, 2023 TEHRAN, Jan. 3 (Xinhua) — With the arrival of the cold season, the air pollution in Iran’s capital Tehran has reached an alarming level and is hazardous for the health of local residents. Domestic and foreign experts pointed out that under the years-long U.S. sanctions, the forced use of…
[ad_1] The Director General of the National Biosafety Management Agency, Dr. Rufus Ebegba, has assured that only safe Genetically Modified Organisms are allowed in Nigeria. Ebegba said this at a media chat with journalists in Abuja. The DG said that the agency has ensured that only safe modern biotechnology activities and GMO products are allowed…
[ad_1] The NGO Alliance on Health Financing, a group of health organisations, has condemned the beverage industry’s attempts to dissuade the government from raising taxes on carbonated drinks. A N10 per litre excise tax on sweetened, carbonated and non-alcoholic beverages was passed in the 2021 Finance Act. “The beverage manufacturers don’t really care about employment…
[ad_1] (Xinhua) 10:36, January 03, 2023 The screen shot shows migratory birds at the Hulun Lake wetland in Hulun Buir, north China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, May 13, 2021.(Xinhua/Wang Xuebing) HOHHOT, Jan. 2 (Xinhua) — China’s fourth largest freshwater lake in the northern Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region has seen its water area expand, wetland ecology…
[ad_1] Tunde Oyekola The Management of the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital has said that it will still go ahead with the investigation and prosecution of the three people who allegedly assaulted a medical doctor at the hospital over the death of one Soliu, a butcher who reportedly died in the hospital last week Tuesday….
[ad_1] The Director General of the National Senior Citizens Centre (NSCC), Dr Emem Omokaro, has appealed to state governments to domesticate the National Health Insurance Act to enhance access to healthcare by older persons. Omokaro made the appeal in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in Abuja. She said President…
[ad_1] About three minutes walk from a busy road in the Tukuntawa area of Kano State is a vaccination centre where residents, passers-by, and other interested persons take jabs of COVID-19 vaccines. On a Tuesday, last month, the COVID-19 vaccinators, all women, sat on a mat placed on a cemented floor in front of a…
[ad_1] (Xinhua) 10:30, January 03, 2023 High school students walk on a campus in Plano, Texas, the United States, on Aug. 31, 2022. (Photo by Xin Jin/Xinhua) The complaints were logged as schools struggled to recover from pandemic-related closures, and add to the declining test scores and growing mental health challenges that display the fragility…
